Creating multi-color blends

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In this tutorial, Mike goes in depth on an exciting new feature of QuarkXPress 2016, multi-color blends. Mike teaches you how to create and edit multi-color blends using the new Color Blends palette. He shows how to set and adjust color stops, and midpoint controls, as well as how to orient multi-color blends to any angle.

- [Voiceover] An exciting new feature in QuarkXPress 2016…is the ability to make multi-color blends.…Let's check them out.…In our exercise file we have a text box…sitting on top of a no-content box,…and that no-content box is filled with a color called wood,…and its opacity is reduced to 80%.…And I can see that here in the colors palette.…That's a perfectly reasonable way to design this page,…but now let's see if we can make it a little more colorful,…specifically let's fill this box with a multi-color blend…with colors that we sampled from the background photo here…using the new color picker.…

First, so we don't make things a little too colorful,…let's double-click on the text box,…select all the text, and make it all black.…Then we can close the colors palette,…take the item tool, click on the no-content box,…and then choose Window, Color Blends.…In the Color Blends palette there's a popup menu…where we can choose the type of blend,…let's choose Axial,…and this makes a straight linear blend from left to right.…

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Updated

10/19/2017

Released

5/24/2016

QuarkXPress is one of the original page layout applications. The most recent version, 2016, is a powerful and compelling alternative to popular competitors like Adobe InDesign. This course will teach you the essential skills you need to use QuarkXPress for professional publishing projects, both print and digital.

Mike Rankin covers the interface and preferences, and the basics of working with documents, master pages, layers, and items (the design elements of a QuarkXPress layout). He then goes over how to import text, format it, and control alignment, leading, and spacing around paragraph and text boxes. There are chapters dedicated to tables, images, and interactivity, as well as the output and publishing options in QuarkXPress, including EPUB and HTML5. Focus on just the topics you need to complete your next layout, or watch the entire course to master the desktop publishing workflow.

Topics include:

What is QuarkXPress?

Setting preferences

Creating new documents and pages

Moving and merging layers in QuarkXPress

Using the Bezier Pen tool

Importing and editing text

Applying fonts

Working with bullets and numbering

Using style sheets

Creating anchored text boxes

Formatting tables

Controlling color and opacity

Adding hyperlinks, video, and animation

Exporting QuarkXPress files

Skill Level Beginner

6h 18m

Duration

55,277

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Q: This course was updated on 10/19/2017. What changed?

A: The following topics were updated: converting imported PDFs to QuarkXPress items and exporting to HTML5 publications. In addition, new videos were added that cover using shape tools, working with text spans and splits, nondestructive image editing, and applying transparency blend modes to items.